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If a scandal drops in the woods, and legacy media ignores it, does the scandal make a sound?
The topline message about State Senator Sonya Jaquez Lewis of Longmont is that she mistreats her staff and, therefore, won’t be allowed to have legislative aides going forward.
“This is now clearly a recurring issue,” outgoing Senate President Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, said in a letter to Jaquez Lewis. “In good conscience we cannot support placing an aide in your office while this behavior and complaints continue.”
The signal of the story, however, is that Jaquez Lewis may be guilty of egregious campaign finance violations and related criminal conduct. From the Colorado Sun:
“Jaquez Lewis paid the aide who did the landscaping work and tended bar over the summer with a check from her campaign’s bank account. She also allegedly used campaign money to pay the same aide for knocking on doors on behalf of an Adams County commissioner candidate who was running in the Democratic primary against the wife of one of Jaquez Lewis’ intraparty legislative rivals… The payments, documented in the complaint with copies of checks written by Jaquez Lewis from her “Sonya For Colorado” campaign’s bank account, were never reported on TRACER, the state’s campaign finance website.”
Being a mean boss is less scandalous than elevating yourself above the law as an elected official. It’s no wonder, then, that legacy media is focusing their reporting on the former rather than the latter. Trump's NY "hush money" case was, at its core, about reporting of campaign expenses. That's not a big deal in this story, because Jaquez Lewis is a Democrat.
Holding elected officials accountable for criminal conduct requires investigators with the courage to demand equal application of the law. In Colorado, that’s unlikely, and we are not holding our breath that Jaquez Lewis will be held to account. She should be, and in a free and fair justice system would be, but the corruption of Colorado’s institutions damn near ensures that she won’t. This news accompanies several Democrat-involved scandals, including Jena Griswold’s BIOS password leak, Aurora and Denver’s migrant gang gaslighting, the CO Springs Mayor’s hate crime hoax, and more.
“I regret that there was an oversight in filing these payments in TRACER. I am amending the reports to reflect these payments," the senator said in a statement.
An “oversight”?
No one is above the law, apparently except elected Democrats.
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